Nomopo's Thread - Is something happening to me?

[BirdDog]

But for the kids, I would feel exactly like this and would probably be long gone.

Nomo,

Perhaps this where our sitch's differ. At 1st alot of reason for staying attached was because of worries for S8. But, he is having no visible problems whatsoever w/ the S. He is a very adaptable kid, and I also took this as a sign of the way our M has been over the past several years, where we essentially were living seperate lives in the same house.

Dating OP has allowed me to follow through w/ the detachment. Several of the people I dated were similar in many ways to W, the one that I am forming the strongest bond w/ is completely different from W. We have much more in the way of common interests. She is a WAW as well, w/ a former spouse who dispite being seperated for 2 years and divorced for over a year now, is still having detachment issues. He does drive-bys on her house still today and very rarely goes a couple days w/o trying to contact her. It's funny, but we talk about what he is going through and I am able to give her what his perspective is, through my personal experience. She is also able to help me see what my W is going through, by sharing her experience.